St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery


				St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery is located at Kensal Green in London. Established in 1858, the 29 acre (120,000 m²) site was built just up the hill from the much larger Kensal Green Cemetery. It is the final resting place for more than 165,000 individuals of the Roman Catholic faith and features a memorial to Belgian soldiers of the First World War who were wounded in combat and evacuated to England but died there in hospital.

Some of the notables interred in St. Mary's are:

Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970), symphony conductor

Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), statesman, philologist

Louis-Clovis Bonaparte (1859-1894), civil engineer, only son of Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte

George Carman QC (1929-2001), barrister

Ada Cavedish (1839-1895), actress

Andrzej Kowerski (Andrew Kennedy), (1912-1988), decorated Polish soldier/spy

Alice Meynell (1847-1922), poet/essayist

Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), caricaturist

Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), author, creator of "Dr. Fu Manchu"

Mary Seacole (1805-1881) nurse, humanitarian

Krystyna Skarbek (Christine Granville) (1915-1952),